Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a ...

Acetylation of lysine residues in the tail domain of histone H3 is well characterized, but lysine residues in the histone globular domain are also acetylated. Histone modifications in globular domain ...

From cancer-resistant mole rats to 200-year-old whales, evolution has equipped long-lived species with unique biological ...

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...

Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure, has died at 97. The Nobel Prize winner made the groundbreaking ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.

Gujarat, becoming the first state in India, initiates a groundbreaking genome sequencing project focused on tribal ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Who was James D Watson? At 25, James D. Watson stepped into a world of science that was about to change forever. He played a ...

James D Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule ...

The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA helped to strengthen a US research institute and wrote a classic textbook, but also ...